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Tatsoft’s FrameworX is the complete, modern SCADA and IIoT platform for building high-performance industrial applications. Designed for edge-to-enterprise use, it unifies operations, data, and AI under one scalable, .NET-based architecture. Features include real-time data modeling, historian, alarms, reports, audit trails, scripting in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, and Python, plus 100+ native drivers for PLCs, DCS, OPC, and MQTT (broker/client/SparkplugB). Build once—deploy anywhere with zero client installs and full web, mobile, and desktop access. Includes every module from day one: Devices, Alarms, Historian, Reports, Security, and DevOps tools. Proven in 5,000+ global deployments, FrameworX powers mission-critical operations across industries with reliability, unlimited scalability, and transparent licensing. (FrameworX was formerly known as FactoryStudio.)

DWSIM is a free and open source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator that operates across multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features an intuitive graphical user interface and offers capabilities previously exclusive to commercial simulators. DWSIM supports both steady-state and dynamic simulations, utilizing a parallel modular solver for efficient modeling. It includes advanced property packages. The simulator provides a comprehensive suite of unit operations, including mixers, splitters, separators, pumps, compressors, expanders, heaters, coolers, valves, pipe segments, shortcut columns, heat exchangers, various reactors, distillation and absorption columns, solids separators, cake filters, spreadsheets, Python scripts, and flowsheet unit operations. It also provides an Excel Add-In for performing thermodynamic calculations within spreadsheets and an automation API for creating, loading, modifying, running, and saving flowsheets.